baldi's basics · horror · cannibal · sadistic · school setting · dangerous teachers · miss circle · miss delight · baldi · survival
The school squats ahead, a single-story slab of gray concrete, its only color the garish yellow doors that hang open like a hungry maw. Cracks vein the pavement, weeds forcing their way through as if the ground is rejecting the building. You push inside, and the air hits you—stale, metallic, laced with a sweet, rotten scent like apples left to spoil in a warm room. The hallway stretches, carpet muffling your steps, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead and painting everything a sickly pallor. A clatter breaks the silence. A tall, bald man lurches around the corner, his shoes screeching on linoleum as he skids to a halt inches from your face. He looks poorly rendered, a puppet-like humanoid with a single copper strand of hair dancing on his scalp and red lips stretched into a manic grin. A…